Had this thought. When printing , nothing more irritating than a support defect, or tiny piece pops off. Something where you need to repair on the fly. I bet a 3Ddoodle pen would be the perfect thing…Gotta try it.
I don’t think it would work. I believe you wouldn’t be able to accurately provide enough support dynamically.
@Nathan_Walkner That sounds extremely sketchy, If a print doesn’t stick first layer just reprint. And if you have support towers breaking try using different support structure or better bed adhesion.
@Nathan_Walkner Not if its just the first layer.
@Nathan_Walkner If you’re printing that large and have problems like that that often then you need to fix something you’re doing wrong
If a support tower falls over and its a few hours into a print I’ll try and superglue it back onto the glass bed if I catch it in time. Usually if it has random support towers I’ll use a raft to hold them. I think a pen might actually work to help prop parts back up. But extruding it around a moving head will be tricky
I do not know if it would work or not, but I do know that it is two different types of plastic. I have used glue stick to save prints and scrap plastic to save prints. I guess there is little reason for the different type of plastic to not work. I hear those are expensive little pens though.
Don’t know if you guys ever saw the printing photos of my Eiffel tower. I actually hot glues the edges of the raft down on the middle portion of the tower. It was a 7 hour print and I had a time crunch. Normally I would say reprint it but I didn’t want to take my chances.
Glue is possible but not recommended
@Nathan_Walkner Not talking crap, I just think that if you’re having those problems you can improve the printer to fix it.
@NathanielStenzel You can use the same ABS or PLA you’re printing. Granted you’ll have to have 2 spools or a precut segment from the spool you’re printing.
@Griffin_Paquette I find hot glue is too temperamental. The melting temp is 120 so if you have your heated bed at 70+ it doesn’t really help much. It’s really only useful if I turn the bed off or use a lot of it. I still keep one right next to my printer though.
@Adam_Steinmark yup I agree 100%. I still don’t have a heated bed so I’m stuck to printing on blue tape all the time. If I had a heated bed I never would’ve done it. But the heated bed is gonna be on the new printer so fingers crossed that everything adheres now!
@Griffin_Paquette Which printers? (Old and new)
@Adam_Steinmark the old one is a reprap smartrap. I made it last fall and it prints good sometimes but really isn’t anything great.
The two new ones are both my design. One implements a cnc/laser cut base designed to be very low cost.
The other new one will be a reprap/ aluminum extrusion printer that has the heated bed.
@Adam_Steinmark I used bits of failed prints and bits of briim and bits of support material. I do not use raw filament for fixing print fails.